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0o A NIGHT OF IHORRORS." None of these reports place the number of dead at Galvestonat less than 2000; some of them predict that 5000 will be nearerthe mark. No one places the property loss at Galveston at less$1o,ooo,ooo, while Manager Vaughn, of the Western Union officeat Houston, wires Manager Baker at Dallas: 'Galveston as abusiness place is practically destroyed.' When the waters shallhave receded it is feared Manager Vaughn will be found to be awise prophet. Along the coast for 100 miles either way fromGalveston is a district that is nearly as completely isolated as isGalveston itself. In this territory are not less than Ioo cities,villages and hamlets. Each of these as far as heard from reportsfrom two to twenty dead persons.OVER SEVEN HUNDRED CORPSES FOUND."In a radius of approximately twenty miles from VirginiaPoint. the ePntte of railroad relicf operations, un to late this afternoonmore than 700 corpses had been washed ashore or picked upfrom the main land. Hitchcock, Clear Creek, Texas City, V.irginiaPoint, Seabrook, Alvin, Dickinson and half a dozeh other poi-tsmidway between Houston and Galveston compose one vast morgue." Down along the coast toward Corpus Christi and Rockportall is silence. Not a word had come from there up to this evening.The first news from that section is likely to come from SanAntonio, as that is the most directly connected point with thatsection of the Gulf. An awful calamity, it is feared, will bechronicled when the report does come."Telegraphic communication was opened late this afternoonwith Beaumont and Orange on the other extreme end of the Gulfto the eastward of Galveston. The joyful news was contained thatthose two towns and Port Arthur were safe, but in the territoryadjacent, forty miles wide and 100 miles long, many lives arebelieved to have been lost and immense property damage sustained."Conservative estimates of the property losses, includingcommercial and other material interests at Galveston and Houston,put the total at from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 for the State.This includes the damage to cotton, which is placed at 250,000